Thanks to the 40+ volunteers who came out Thursday morning to help us sort and deliver food to TABLE! We sorted food for 350 of the 460 backpacks TABLE will deliver this week—all made possible with your Round Up! donations. TABLE delivers food weekly to children in need. For the past three years, donations from…
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Food Sort for TABLE this Week
Join us this Thursday to sort food for TABLE! Each week throughout the year, including the summer, TABLE volunteers begin a three-day process of sorting the food and preparing the bags for a Thursday delivery. Twice during the summer, we give their volunteers a break and host a community-scale food sort at our Carrboro store….
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Join Our Community Food Sort for TABLE’s Summer Backpack Program
Since our Round Up! campaign started in May, shoppers have donated more than $37,000 for TABLE’s Summer Backpack program. TABLE makes the first summer delivery of backpack meals this Thursday. Each week throughout the year, including the summer, TABLE volunteers begin a three-day process of sorting the food and preparing the bags for a Thursday…
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Volunteer with Food for the Summer
Food for the Summer is a program that provides weekday lunches during the summer to youth (under 18) at walkable sites throughout Chapel Hill-Carrboro. The meals are prepared by Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School (CHCCS) cafeteria staff and are delivered by volunteers who supervise the mealtime and interact with the children. Last year the summer meals…
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Bon Voyage, Amy!
Earlier this year, local teacher and volunteer Amy Crump was chosen as a guest on the Cabot Celebrity Cruise. Cabot Creamery Co-op sponsors the cruise to honor stellar volunteers. Yesterday, we sent Amy and her husband off on the cruise with some Weaver Street goodies. They’ll fly to Seattle and leave on the cruise to…
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Join the Round Up!
Owners, you can now sign up to have all your transactions rounded up. In two weeks, the Weaver Street Community has donated enough change through the Round Up! campaign to provide backpack meals for 159 kids this summer. Shoppers have rounded up more than 47,000 transactions for $23,823.59! Update: We’re approaching $66,000—only 13 more kids ($1,796) to…
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The Power of Community: Feeding the Hungry with Our Change
We’re moving to a year-long series of Round Up! campaigns for our community food partnerships. We’re asking you, our community of owners, shoppers, and staff, to donate your change by rounding up your total purchases to the nearest dollar. The power of our Round Up! campaigns is that as a large community we can individually…
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Thanks, from the Piedmont Farm Tour
Thanks to everyone who went on the 22nd annual Piedmont Farm Tour last month! With one (mostly) sunny day and one rainy day, 1,703 visitors went on the tour. They made 5,402 farm visits. You can see the photos we took at Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm (here) and Breeze Farm (here), and videos of the…
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Call for Grant Applications
Weaver Street Market seeks proposals for community projects for its 12th Annual Cooperative Community Fund Grant awards. Recipients must be IRS-certified nonprofit organizations. Funded projects focus on “Access to Healthy Food” (such as Community Agriculture, Hunger Relief, Nutrition and Cooking Education, Healthy Food Environments, Advocacy, Food Waste) A committee composed of owner volunteers will evaluate the…
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Round Up for TABLE This Summer!
The Round Up! returns on May 17 to help us support TABLE’s Summer Backpack program. Round Up! campaigns are about making a big impact with small donations that anyone can make. Throughout the summer, the Weaver Street Market community can round up their total purchases to the nearest dollar to fill a child’s backpack with…
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